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Tuesday 31 January 2012, 6.30pm for 7pm
Laura Del-Rivo and Michael Horovitz
Two writers discuss their work and the lives and times that influenced them.
Lutyens & Rubenstein Bookshop, 21 Kensington Park Road, W11 2EU
Laura Del-Rivo’s debut novel The Furnished Room was published in 1961, and filmed in 1963 by Michael Winner as West 11. Recently re-published, the novel was described in The Guardian as “an evocative taste of black coffee blues”. She was part of a loose collective of writers and artists including Colin Wilson and Alexander Trocchi, and was photographed by Ida Kar. In addition to writing, Del-Rivo had a series of jobs, including working as a bookseller, a Lyons’ counter hand and an art-school model before she started running a market stall in Portobello Road, where she is still a regular stall holder.
Michael Horovitz is an internationalist polymath. He has edited and published New Departures and coordinated the Poetry Olympics festivals for 50 years. He was described by Allen Ginsberg as a ‘Popular, Experienced, Experimental, Jazz Generation, New Jerusalem, Sensitive Bard’, and his magnum opus, A New Waste Land, was selected as Book of the Year by DJ Taylor in the Independent as ‘A deeply felt clarion call from the radical underground’. He has been a Notting Hill resident for most of his adult life, his artworks and picture-poems continue to be exhibited locally and internationally, and he currently performs in a jazz poetry duo with Stan Tracey as well as with the ebullient William Blake Klezmatrix Band.
Tickets: from the store, call 020 7229 1010, E: bookshop@lutyensrubinstein.co.uk
Admission £5
Appeal
Poetry Olympics needs storage space!
Torchbearer Michael Horovitz is urgently seeking affordably rented storage/studio space in/within a few miles of Notting Hill Gate, Bayswater and Ladbroke Grove areas. Even poetry, art and music productions are on offer as part payment. If you know of available space, please send details from the Contact page.
Exhibition
Picture-Poems and other Artworks 1963-2008 by Michael Horovitz
Art@42, 42 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3HN